Access TeleCare Expands Leadership Team Following Year of Record Growth

Access TeleCare’s founder, Dr. Chris Gallagher, takes on new Chief Strategy Officer role in which he will drive innovation, identify strategic partnerships, and plan for strategic growth

Josh DeTillio joins Access TeleCare as CEO to build on the company’s positive momentum and execute on its mission to provide timely access to high-quality care

The expansion comes at an exciting time, as the healthcare industry and federal government take steps to formally recognize the important role telehealth plays in care delivery

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access TeleCare, the largest national provider of acute specialty telemedicine for health systems nationwide, announced today that it is expanding its leadership team as the company looks to build on recent milestones – such as achieving all-time-high clinical performance numbers and the strongest financials in the company’s history – providing a solid foundation for accelerated growth.

This expansion comes on the heels of an incredible year for Access TeleCare. In 2024, the company’s 20^th year in operation, it announced a new partnership with UT Southwestern as well as impressive results from its work with several hospitals and health systems. It also deepened its bench of physician-executives, hired more than 215 clinicians in order to meet the dynamic needs of its growing roster of health system clients, performed over 300 implementations of telemedicine programs, and was named a Top Remote Workplace.

“Looking ahead, we knew that the next major inflection for the company would come from driving outsized growth in our business,” said Chris Gallagher, M.D., founder and chief strategy officer of Access TeleCare. “We began thinking about how we should augment our leadership team to accelerate growth and expand service offerings, while continuing the positive momentum in clinical quality, operations and financial results. With the industry and nation poised for strong – and growing – utilization of telemedicine, Access TeleCare has the ability to impact the lives of so many people through tech-enabled care and innovation.”

Access TeleCare partners with 19 of the 25 largest health systems in the country, conducts more than 1 million patient encounters yearly, and provides care that is accessible to 65% of Americans. It has eight telemedicine service lines, including comprehensive virtual behavioral health across the care continuum, neurology, infectious disease, pulmonary and critical care, hospital medicine, maternal-fetal medicine, cardiology, and nephrology.

As a key part of the leadership expansion, Josh DeTillio, will be taking on the role of CEO of Access TeleCare. Josh brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in healthcare companies, having served in CEO and senior leadership roles across multiple health systems, including HCA, Tenet, and CHS. Most recently, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Nutex Health, a publicly-traded healthcare services company which operates 24 micro-hospitals across 11 states.

“Access TeleCare is a company that is committed to improving how it operates, how its clinicians do their work, and how it serves patients,” said Josh DeTillio, CEO of Access TeleCare. “Providers and patients alike are ready for virtual care to transform healthcare delivery modalities, and Access TeleCare is poised to be the company that leads that transformation. I look forward to working with the team to continue delivering clinically-excellent care in order to ensure every American has access to the high-quality care they need, when they need it.”

About Access TeleCare

Access TeleCare is the standard bearer of clinical excellence in acute specialty telemedicine, providing high-quality care for patients in 1 out of 5 U.S. hospitals. Over the last 20 years, the company has delivered care in more than 7 million patient encounters across multiple specialty service lines, including behavioral health, neurology, hospitalist medicine, pulmonary and critical care, maternal-fetal medicine, infectious disease, cardiology, and nephrology. The virtual care provided by Access TeleCare is crucial in ensuring timely and high-quality healthcare coverage across a virtual catchment area of more than 65% of the U.S. population, representing a total population of over 216 million Americans, many of whom live in medically underserved or vulnerable areas. As the first and longest-standing telemedicine organization to receive The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval in 2006, Access TeleCare is leading the way to a better healthcare delivery system with clinically excellent tech-enabled services. Learn more at AccessTeleCare.com.